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Discovering a Great Basin -- Modern definitions of the Great Basin -- Glaciers, sea levels, and the peopling of the New World -- The End of the North American Pleistocene: extinct mammals and early peoples -- The Late Pleistocene physical environment: lakes and glaciers -- The Late Pleistocene vegetation of the Great Basin -- The Late Pleistocene vertebrates of the Great Basin -- The Great Basin during the Holocene -- The Prehistoric archaeology of the Great Basin -- Historic archaeology and the Donner Party -- Cougars, cheatgrass, and the natural landscape.